Song Lyrics: Clouds

I have only heard this song on YouTube on Vegas in Tune (see video below), so I'm not sure if it came as a bonus track on albums, but I just love it! If you know where else it has been released let me know. There is also a great video on Utah's Got Talent! Band members in this song are Dan Reynolds, Ben McKee, Wayne Sermon, Andrew Tolman and Brittany Tolman.

CLOUDS

Oh...!
Oh...!
Looking at the lonely telegram, I crept into your room
Listen to the breathing voices of the ones around the tomb
The radio is playing, but I can't hear them sing
The people are explaining, but they don't know a thing
Give me a sign, give me a sign
I wanna die tonight

They say that London sounds like a city of red
All the prisoners wait for their turn to be dead
Oh You don't love me
You don't love me like you say you do

I can take a picture, you can be a picture
Stitched into my faded black
I can take you home, or you can be a home
We'll never look on back
The radio is playing, but I can't hear them sing
The people are explaining, but they don't know a thing
Give me a sign, give me a sign
I wanna die tonight

They say that London sounds like a city of red
All the prisoners wait for their turn to be dead
Oh You don't love me
You don't love me like you say you do

Oh, London sounds like a city of red
All the prisoners wait for their turn to be dead
And I don't want to die
No I don't want to die, Tonight

Come out, I'm waiting on your front porch
You came in through the back door
We drift along the flooded sea of muddy watersClouds above us crying tears of sins
All dying
We're begging for a reason

Oh...!
Oh...!

Now come out, I'm waiting on your front porch
You came in through the back door
We drift along the flooded sea of muddy watersClouds above us crying tears of sins
All dying
We're begging for a reason
This year seems like a season
Belief in how we're living
Story with no ending
The storm is beating down
But we're sinking to the sky
We're sinking to the sky
We're sinking to the sky
We're sinking to the sky.

"I'm a first class let down, I'm a shut up sit down..... I am a head case, I am the color of BOOM!"

Song Lyrics: Clouds

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

I'm so sad that there is no album version of the song!
Btw: the lyrics are really, really weird.

I read somewhere that Dan used to hide behind his lyrics with his depression by using metaphors-because he didn't want anyone to know he was depressed..... maybe this song fits into that time frame he was talking about.

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"I'm a first class let down, I'm a shut up sit down..... I am a head case, I am the color of BOOM!"

That talent show was a great video! So happy they won. Would it be rude if I said Dan Reynolds has a very unique sense of fashion? He is adorable. And was very cramped on the tiny stage! I am sure the diamond shaped peninsula on the Smoke+Mirrors stage was his idea so that he could run around!

The lyrics remind me of Lost Cause
"Dig my shallow grave. It's not me you'll save."
All that talk about dying makes me pray that it is not a veiled reference to feeling suicidal?
Hopefully just expressing himself in his individual way! There is something to be said for leaving all of that darkness on stage and walking away from it after a show.